18th Place!

Even though It's still summer break, I have to go to the student council room! Damn it! Why do I have to be summoned when It's still the precious time of youth? Summer break?

I immediately opened the door of the student council and saw this scammer of a president.

"Well, you're welcome."

He stretched his arms towards me. I know, I know. I approached him and put some money on his hands. After I put the money, he smiled at me and asked:

"What is this?"

"The Parity Rights. You said that you'll get 50%, right?"

"This is just 3500 yen.".

"Exactly."

Duh! I only got 7000 yen and I have to give half to you. That means I can't buy an aircon anymore! You greedy swine! The president just released a heavy sigh and said:

"Okay, I'll accept this. It's still money. I expected that this would happen but I thought with your brains, you could profit much greater than this."

I'm not intelligent at all, mister president. After he said those words, I turned back from him and walked towards the door to completely leave this room.

While I'm approaching the door, I heard him talking to someone. Although, I can't really who he's talking to. I didn't care enough to look back, so I opened the door and left the room.

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"Araragi! We're waiting for you! Where did you go?"

Asked by Ayano Katachi as soon as I arrived. I gave some money to a greedy human but I don't want to talk about that for now. Even though It's summer vacation we can still use the practice room and the clubroom.

When I came here, the 4 girls are already here. I don't really know why Asuzagawa Reina came but nevermind. I walked to the front beside the blackboard and said:

"Even if It's summer vacation, the league is still ongoing! I checked the net for our rank and saw that we're... 18th place. Out of 50 participants, we're 18th place."

All of the girls gave each other a high-five! Normally, I would say that "Don't let your guard down!" or "It's still too early to be happy!"

But I don't want to ruin the mood now. Well, Ayano Katachi approached me and showed her palm to me. A high-five, huh? I gave her what I want and gave her a high-five!

"Now, the celebration is over. We're going to have a meeting first!"

Now to state my business...

"Although we're 18th place, there are still participants above us and much popular than us."

We defeated Ryota Kaneshiro by sheer coincidence. But as much as possible, I don't want to face a veteran again. The 2nd round lottery will take place next week! This time... I have to know... what kind of cheating is taking place!

Maybe they'll repeat the last trick? Too bad, I already know about that. I prepared some countermeasures against the Roman Numeral Trick. I won't get fooled the second time.

All of the ranks above us are all veterans while all of the beginners are all below us. So... my theory is actually true, huh? Doesn't that mean we're the only beginner that has a high rank?

I want to pray that we're going to face a beginner at the 2nd Round but in the off chance that we're going to face a veteran again, I want to prepare some countermeasures.

"Right now, I'm going to hold a training regimen!"

"Training regimen!?"

The three girls shouted in sync.

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The girls don't really have that much of stamina. I remedied it for now by cutting unnecessary moves or moves that are taking a lot of energy.

Even though our rank became higher, It's not like we're popular now. We still can't defeat a bunch of veterans by popularity rates. But I'm sure that... someone will definitely come to our concert!

It's not going to be zero anymore! But still... we will still lose by the number of popularity! That's why... If we're going to lose anyway, we need to show them our skills. Even if we lose at the 2nd Round, If we displayed a certain skill, then they will surely come back for more, build our own territory, and in the fourth or fifth round, we can fight the veterans on equal grounds!

But if we're going to face a beginner, we're already at the equal grounds, no, we have the advantage! I already prepared two countermeasures at the two different outcomes that could happen at the lottery!

"So first, we're going to improve your stamina. I stayed up all night just to prepare this stamina training so you better prepare yourselves."

I saw the girls gulping down when I said those words. Now... this is the start of Araragi Hideki's hellish training regimen!

END OF CHAPTER 27